Doctor butcher commented on reports by the foreign media about the underestimation of mortality from COVID-19 in Russia. Earlier the Financial Times published an article stating that the real deaths from the coronavirus in Russia 70 percent higher than the official statistics. Similar material was published in the New York Times. Myasnikov noted that the journalists took the example of April only, the mortality rate in Moscow was higher than the same last year.
“comparing the figures for one month is not proof of any trends. The increase in mortality in Moscow – 1 800 cases, and only 600 of them – from the coronavirus,” he told the expert in the TV channel “Russia 24”. The doctor recalled that in Russia, unlike most countries, the autopsy of the dead with suspected COVID-19 is produced in one hundred percent of the time. In the US and the UK such expertise is paid and optional, which significantly affects the accuracy of the diagnosis of death. Previously, information in the foreign media about the low statistics of deaths from new virus in the country has denied representatives of the Department of health in Moscow.
the First outbreak of the novel coronavirus recorded at the end of December 2019, in Central China. The disease rapidly spread to most countries of the world. According to the latest who data, from the pandemic COVID-19 affecting over 4.5 million people.
